Tuesday Change at the Picture Shows
A compact program for Tuesday features multiple shorts and features from Selig, Kalem, Gaumont, Biograph, Edison, and others. Highlights include Industries of the South and West with the Santa Rosa Flower Festival, Her Little Slipper war story, and The Revenge Man and the Girl. Musical numbers and a Western comedy night cap the Oregon theater bill for February 2.
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South
Selig
Roosevelt Dam
Watsonville
Santa Rosa
Los Angeles
Kalem
Baltic
Jimmie
Gaumont
Good Pictures
Edison
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Essany
Last Nights at At Grand Features Round-Up Pictures
Two packed houses saw the Austin company and the Pendleton Round-Up pictures with Harry Watson assisting and singing Let er Buck. Tonight is the last chance to view the Round-Up pictures as the first half of the week’s benefit for the relief society nets more funds. Tomorrow the Austin company presents Two Married Men with two new strong voices joining the cast. Friday is amateur night and the final Round-Up screening.
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Austin Company
Pendleton
Harry Watson
Buck
Relief Society
Right of Way at the Oregon Theatre by Sanford Dodge
Sanford Dodge plans The Right of Way at the Oregon Theatre using Presbreys version based on Sir Gilbert Parker story. The drama, not religious in focus, raises individual questions of opinion and conscience with tight dialogue and thrilling climaxes. Charley Steele as the lawyer will surprise audiences.
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Oregon Theater
Sanford Dodge
Charles Frohman
Eugene W. Presbrey
Sir Gilbert Parker
Charley Steele
Flunk at West Point ruins top fourth class
West Point New York reports a exams disaster as thirty one cadets from the largest fourth class ever gathered are sent home after failing the semi annual exams. The class had been praised for preparation and passed initial tests, but six months of military discipline overwhelmed them.
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West Point
N. Y
Millionaire for Day Is Back in Wilkesbarre Saga
John Jay McDevitt, once a daylong millionaire, returns to Wilkesbarre penniless and says he will live simply. He recalls his New York spree, tipped a porter $1.50, and declined $1,000 weekly vaudeville offers to preserve his town’s fame.
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Wilkesbarre
John Jay McDevitt
McDevitt
New York
Porter
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Scotland
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mayor Miller Mistaken for Fugitive by Dayton Detective
Dayton police detective, acting on a warrant, attempted to arrest Springfield Mayor J. J. Miller as a crook on a Dayton traction car. Miller and his wife protested, and bystanders halted the handcuffing, revealing the mix up as the detective realized he had captured the wrong man.
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Dayton
Springfield
J. J. Miller
Miller
Boycott urged as way to cut butter and egg prices
Baltimore doctor Guy L. Hunter calls for a boycott of butter and eggs to force price reductions. He blames dairy interests holding large quantities in cold storage for the recent price hikes.
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Baltimore
Guy L. Hunter
Girl Won’t Buy License In South Bend Matrimony Row
In South Bend Indiana Miss Mary Ford balks at paying for a marriage license. She tells suitor Peter J that he must cover the charge and refuses to fund the document, insisting on a frugal approach to nuptial formalities. The prospective husband reacts with evident anger as the dispute centers on the license cost of eighty one dollars and fifty cents and the marriage document fee of two dollars.
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South Bend
Ind
Mary Ford
Peter J
Kidney remedy Swamp Root cures long time suffering
Notice contains a testimonial from W. H. Mecoy of Van Wert Ohio praising Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a magical cure for kidney liver and nervous ailments. The statement sworn before Notary Public A C Gilpin on July 18 1909 verifies the claim.
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M. H. McCoy
A. C. Gilpin
Prove What Swamp Root Will Do For You Ad
A letter seeks readers to request a sample bottle from Dr Kilmer Co of Binghampton New York. It promises a booklet on kidneys and bladder and urges Pendleton Daily East Oregonian readers to mention the paper. Bottles sold at drug stores in fifty cent and one dollar sizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghampton
N. Y
Nail
Pendleton Daily
East Oregonian
Couple Spurn License Fee After Clerk Cites Cost
Potok and his intended wife argued in the St. Joseph County Clerk's office over the marriage license fee. She urged him to have money, he offered $1.50 but the clerk quoted $2. The girl refused to pay, denounced him, and they left to get more funds, never returning.
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Potok
St. Joseph County
Crimeon
Swedish worker dies in tunnel collapse at Peach yard
Peter Olson, 28, Swedish native from Spokane, was crushed in a tunnel cavein during construction of the Columbia Bluestem branch of the Great Northern railway at Peach Washington. He had worked about twenty minutes before the collapse.
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Peter Olson
Chushey
Miles
Columbia- Bluestem
Great Northern Railway
Sweden
Spokane
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